When it comes to medical staff peer review, few areas are stickier than conducting ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) for low- and no-volume practitioners. Medical staffs already struggle to collect data from numerous sources...
Often, medical staff bylaws describe the processes for nominating, electing, and removing medical staff officers. However, bylaws often lack details new leaders need to know to hit the ground running or experienced leaders need to maintain optimal performance.
The World Health Organization has recently defined burnout as an official medical diagnosis, explaining it as a syndrome that results “from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It is characterized by three dimensions: feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion;...
There are five components of a truly effective medical staff. Last month’s column explored three of the five: culture, collaboration, and communication. This month, we conclude with the remaining two: medical staff structure and processes and leadership.
Hospitalists have long been touted as the drivers of quality improvement initiatives, and one of their key tools for tracking the effectiveness of their initiatives is a dashboard. Dashboards are short reports containing data, often depicted in graphs, charts, and tables, that summarize the...